They are spying on all of us. Not just Reddit users.

Reminds me of the "oopsie" by Reddit when they revealed Eglin Air Force Base as the "most addicted city."

This was an inevitable step for a surveillance state. Technology will consolidate the position of the leaders while making organised resistance impossible.

Bummer.

That’s the real reason behind the push of digital ID. Any other reason you hear is just a straight up lie.

More specifically, the Border Patrol are spying on reddit users. Why are they creating these reports themselves and not relying on other agencies to investigate? Does border patrol have jurisdiction over all national security matters?

>The spying is revealed in a January intelligence bulletin produced by the Border Patrol and leaked to me.

Here is one of the fundamental mistaken beliefs of the fascism supporters demonstrated in stark relief - Pournelle's Iron Law does not merely apply only to bureaucracies! It would be much much much less work to stop executing American citizens, stop abducting citizens and lawful immigrants, and stop keeping deportees in concentration camps, than to pay someone who didn't even meet the low bar for the gravy seal field work to sit on their ass paraphrasing reddit comment histories. But obviously that would not meet the needs of the expanding autocracy.

I wouldn't consider consuming public Reddit posts "spying."

The OSINT folks aren't technically spying but they're a lot closer to it than this.

This is OSINT (open-source intelligence) and isn't spying by any technical standard because it's speech in a public venue, there isn't a way to raise hell like with e.g. Snowden. Spying would be going into their DMs without a warrant (which is probably happening).

> Reddit post about “spreading awareness” as though it were the secret messages of al Qaeda

Extreme waste of tax dollars, though. I guess this is an important lesson in Big Brother and "having nothing to hide." They will put something worth hiding in your hands and swiftly arrest you.